A pseudonym (from the Greek pseúdos, “false,” and ónoma, “name”) is an invented name for the author of a literary, musical, or artistic work. Motives for the use of pseudonyms often ranged from political or religious repression to the prospect of negative social consequences, although there were also reasons related to fashion, aesthetics, and poetics. Works published pseudonymously or anonymously were accordingly mostly religious and political, but also included satirical or erotic texts (Satire; Erotica; Pornography). The use of a pseudonym to conceal a writer…